Unified Medical Language System
"Unified Medical Language System" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A research and development program initiated by the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE to build knowledge sources for the purpose of aiding the development of systems that help health professionals retrieve and integrate biomedical information. The knowledge sources can be used to link disparate information systems to overcome retrieval problems caused by differences in terminology and the scattering of relevant information across many databases. The three knowledge sources are the Metathesaurus, the Semantic Network, and the Specialist Lexicon.
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D017432
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| MeSH Number(s) |
L01.453.245.945.800
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MediClass: A system for detecting and classifying encounter-based clinical events in any electronic medical record. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Sep-Oct; 12(5):517-29.